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THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 20.
Life is most!}/ froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in our own.
—Adam. Lindsay Gordon.
OCT "WITH THE GRAFTERS
THERE are vague rumors from
Washington of the operations of
what the correspondents have
dubbed a "munition trust." formed to
profit from the legislation to be en
acted by Congress at its coming ses-
Blon looking toward a proper equip
ment for the United States in case of
attack by a foreign foe. It is said
the efforts of this combination of arms
and armament makers will be directed
toward preventing the passage of laws
providing for the manufacture of mili
tary and naval supplies in government
factories.
If there is any truth in these re
ports the more quickly the whole
scheme is brought to light the better.
Out with the grafters of any sort, who
plot to prey upon the nation at a time
■when every citizen's hand should be
raised in support of the government
in its efforts to save us from the mur
dero'uß~fury" of such a foe as swept
ruthlessly over prostrate Belgium.
What the people want is legislative
action that will produce early and ef
fective results. They do not care
•whether the necessary arms and muni
tions are manufactured under gov
ernment control or in private fac
tories. Looking at the matter from a
common-sense standpoint, it would
seem to be the part of wisdom to keep
the government factories, arsenals and
navy yards humming and thus put a
curb on the prices that the govern
ment might find itself obliged to pay
to private concerns glutted with Euro
pean war orders and accustomed to
the emergency prices that foreign
customers are just now ready to pay.
But it would be folly to do any
thing that would put these concerns
out of business entirely, so far as our
own government is concerned. When
the European war is at an end their
prosperity will depend largely upon
the work given to them by the United
States military and naval establish
ments. For our own protection, we
must look out for these, for we have
Been in what good stead they have
stood the allies, and the time may
come when we will need them Just as i
badly.
With their prices kept within
bounds by the government mills and
factories, the private companies would
remain a valuable asset to the coun
try, but the unscrupulous ones among
them must not be permitted to think
for a moment that any attempt of
theirs to put the government out of
the munitions manufacturing business
will be permitted to get past the mere
talking stage.
If Mayor Royal was as energetic in
stopping the motorcycle and automobile
drivers who use their cut-outs In city
streets as ho is in his efforts to stop
Important public work, he might be
useful. 0
THE RICH MAX'S SON
CAN a Millionaire's Son Make
Good?" is the interroga
tory title of an* article by Bur
ton J. Hendrick in the Sunday Maga- i
zine of recent date.
The question is akin to the Biblical I
assertion that it is "easier for a
camel to pass through the eye of a|
needle than for a rich man to enter)
the Kingdom of Heaven."
In both cases it depends entirely
upon the man. Not in all cases upon
the son. for many a good son has
been ruined by an indulgent or care
less parent, but upon the father
upon the Man.
Hlptory abounds with obscure sons
of famous men. Genius is not heredi
tary.» Character, on tile other hand,
often Is. But even a naturally strong
character may be spoiled by early
.training, or the lack of it. The mil
lionaire father who has an eye to the
future of his son may not go to the
lengths of old Commodore Vanderuilt,
who all but turned his eldest son and
chosen heir adrift in a Spartan effort
to fit him for the heavy responsibilities
he was one day to assume, but he will
see to it that the youth is introduced
to work at an early age and made to
understand that whether or not he is
THURSDAY EVENING, OUUUSBtrB' , t&3%£g, TELEGRAPH JULY 29, 1915.
! to succeed his father depends entirely
upon his own capabilities for indus
! try and toil.
Too many fathers lay up money only
with the thought of "making it easy''
for their children. The whole idea is
wrong. The "easy way" is the road
to individual slothfulness. if not to
actual ruin. Riches are the very worst
thing that can come into the hands
of the average young man of twenty
one. More boys have settled down to
worthless lives because they were as
sured of a competency, whatever be
tide, than for any other one reason.
What bodily toil and muscular exer
cise are for the body, hard work .is to
the Intellect and the spirit. Don't plan
a life of ease and luxury for your boy
or girl and imagine you are laying up
for them a store of happiness. A bank
balance is desirable only wjien he or
she who possesses it knows how to
use it
I But if the Thaws and others who
| have been wrecked on the rocks of
j wealth are so numerous that any
mariner who attempts ttie sea of life
finds them charted for him, so the
searcher for better examples of suc
cessful rich men's sons need not look
in vain. The country is full of young
men who have inherited wealth and
have not been spoiled by it. When the
father is a good father and the son a
good boy it matters not much what
the financial condition in which they
find themselves, the chances for the
boy are pretty good. „
Mr. Hopkins is on the Job day and
night, and the outcome will be a great
celebration in September. People all
along the line are co-operating with
him and the Chamber of Commerce in
making this a great civic demonstra
tion.
HIGH COST OF WEDDINGS
AND now it is the high cost of
weddings that is disturbing the
courts in this hot weather period.
With Judge Kunkel fishing at Port
Deposit and Judge McCarrell keeping
cool at Eaglesmere, Judge Henry, who
is holding down their places on the
Dauphin county bench while they are
on vacation, has been stacked up
against a problem that puts a little
matter like the constitutionality of the
hard coal tax law In the primer class.
Miss Miriam Finn has asked him to
grant her S4OO from her inheritance to
spend on wedding finery. The Judge
thinks half that sum enough. He is
willing to let Miss Finn "show him,"
but until she does it is S2OO for hers.
Here is a Solomon come to Judg
ment. Think of the temerity of a
Judge who dares to set a price on wed
ding gowns and the things that accom
pany them. Girls will one and all de
clare the sum ridiculously small, for
there is nothing st> dear to the femi
nine heart as personal finery, and It Is
doubly precious in the eyes of the
bride elect who would go to her hus
band garbed as the lilies of the field,
only much more so. Men who have
found their old evening clothes and a
new "traveling suit" ample equipment
in the way of clothes for a wedding
trip will look on S2OO as a pretty stiff
figure. As for humble us, we have
good reason for .expressing the belief
that it Is not so much getting married
that is expensive as what comes after,
and we strongly recommend a SIOO
wedding outfit for the average girl.
That other hundred certainly will
"look good" a little later.
Again the Chamber of Commerce has
demonstrated its usefulness to the
businessmen and the community gen
erally in exposing the fake magazine
solicitors who have annually swooped
down upon Harrisburg and deceived
the public. '
THE ADAMS FRUIT BELT
THE Adams county fruit belt will
ship more than 1,500 cars of
apples, peaches and pears to
market this season.
Fifteen hundred cars strung out in
one line would make quite a train
and their contents on one pile would
fill Market Square pretty nearly to the
house tops.
All of this fruit is grown in a district
that but a few years ago was given
over to none too productive farms. To
day land that sold for sl3 an acre ten
years ago cannot be purchased for
S4OO an acre and is yielding a return
of 20 per cent, a year on the invest-1
mtnt. But these gold mines were not
developed over night. Neither are
they the products of chance. They are
the results of the toil and thought of
growers who at the beginning saw the
end in sight and the intermediate
difficulties standing between them and
their reward and who were willing to
wait through the years for the profits
they saw in their ventures. It takes
a hard-headed businessman, an expert
farmer and a Job for patience all
rolled into one to a successful
fruit grower. The Adams county men
have succeeded, first, because they
have the soil and the climate, and
second, because they have the personal
qualifications noted.
And the industry is only in Its in
fancy. Adams county apples are pre
ferred to Oregon fruit wherever they
are sold. Their flavor is far superior
and where they have been raised un
der favorable conditions they are al
most. if not quite, as large as the west
ern fruit. Year by year the orchards
are growing until the time will come
when the Adams county belt will be
one vast Orchard and when other parts
of the State just as favorably located
will model orchards along the scien
tific lines that have made those in
Adams so successful.
Though professing to be eager to re
lieve enterprise of the burdens thrust
upon It by recent litigation. Attorney
General Gregory will, nevertheless, not
accept the adverse decrees of lowar
Federal courts in the Government's
suits against the Steel Corporation and
the coal-carryi!»g railroads; and he is
preparing to take these cases up to the
Supreme Court on appeal. And yet
some people profess to wonder that the
American businessman Is suspicious of
the administration!
Secretary of the Navy Danlela Anally
performed one act that njeets the ap
proval of the country—he formed a
navy board composed of men of dem
onstrated ability. Now if he would re
sign and let one of the members of
the board be appointed Secretary, gome
permanent good might be accomplished.
""pontics- Lk
By the Ex-Committeeman
Philadelphia newspapers say that
the whole Philadelphia Republican
mayoralty nomination situation, the
most important from a State-wide
standpoint of all the contests this Fall,
will be straightened out within a
week. Some of the papers intimate
that conferences will be held and am
bitions diverted or adjusted. It is
strongly intimated in some quarters
that Congressman W. S. Vare will not
be a candidate after all, his senatorial
brother having not received the re
sponses looked for following his pro
nouncement a short time ago.
The Democratic Philadelphia Record
sums up tne interesting situation in
these words: "With the Vares 'sitting
tight' upon their attitude and Senator
McNichol still talking harmony, re
ports were general in political circles
yesterday that Judge Norris S. Barratt
might be agreed upon as the organ
ization mayoralty candidate satisfac
tory to the rival factions in the event
that there is to be no fight. The fact
that Congressman John R. K. Scott
and other members of the lawyer
grcup affiliated with the Vares are
lauding Barratt's availability gives
certain currency to the reports that
the judge might be selected as 'the
harmony man,' if the factions are to
patch up a truce, get together and
save the expenses of a general row.
Close friends of Judge Barratt stated
yesterday that under no conditions
would he enter the primaries as a fac
tional candidate, and that should he
consent to run it would only be with
the backing of all elements of the or
ganization. It is now regarded as very
probable that should Congressman
Vare decide to step aside, the Vare ele
ment will get behind Barratt. As
Select Councilman Charles Seger has
been the chief promoter of the Vare
boom, and as he has close alliances
With the McNichol camp, as well as
considerable strength of' his own, his
friends are counting upon Barratt be
ing agreeable to the McNichol-Penrose
element also."
A Wilkes-Barre dispatch says: "Sen
ator Boies Penrose is in Wilkes-Barre
to deliver an address at ths meeting of
the United Sportsmen's Association.
The Senator motored to this city to
day from Farvlew, where he spent last
night. This morning he inspected the
grounds and buildings of the Farview
State Hospital. He was accompanied
to Wilkes-Barre by Henry F. Walton,
of Philadelphia, chairman of the board
of trustees of Farview Hospital. At
Scranton Senator Penrose stopped at
the Jermyn Hotel, wnere he met
Mayor E. B. Jermyn and prominent
Republicans of Lackawanna county.
The Senator to-night at the Redding
ton Hotel conferred with some of his
political lieutenants in Luzerne county.
He was the guest of honor at 'A Night
in Bohemia' at the Wilkes-Barre Press
Club. The list of speaiters included
Senator Penrose, Henry F. Walton,
Judge J. M. Garman, Judge P. A.
O'Boyle and others. Senator Penrose
to-morrow will attend tne session of
the Sportsmen's Association, and in
the evening there will tie a dinner in
his honor at the Reddlngton Hotel."
Eugene Chafin, former Prohibition
candidate for President, is making a
series of speeches in this State.
Th< 'Washington party city commit
tee will meet next Wednesday night to
arrange for its Fall campaign. The
pi ospectlv# candidacy of Director Por
ter for mayor threatens- to promote a
fight within the committee, as potential
influences in tnis organization will op
pose Porter for the nomination. An
other contest is brewing among these
independents, as George D. Cox and
Clarence D. Antrim are rivals for the
nomination for sheriff.
—Representative Frederick Beyer,
one of the Philadelphia delegation in
the last House and the chief tighter
apainst local option in that delegation,
has announced that he will be a candi
date for the Republican nomination
foi mayor of Philadelphia. He has
taken out papers.
—The Allegheny county situation
appears to have quieted down. It is
expected that the disturbed conditions
in both parties will result in many
unexpected candidates. The Washing
tor party has about ceased to be In
that county.
—Thomas L. Howard, who is well
known here, is a candidate for sheriff
in Fayette county and stirring things
up.
—David H. Xiane. the veteran Phila
delphia city Republican chairman, was
seventy-six yesterday and received
many friends.
—The morning comments on the en
rollment sound very much ii>te those
of two years ago. A little later and
„the absurdity of counting all unen
rc.lled as Democrats will be demon
strated again.
THE "LITTLE NAVY" MAN
Unless there is to be found in the
next Congress a large percentage of
members who are wholly unmindful
of their own poliUcal interests, it
should not be difficult for the admin
istration to put through a program of
adequate military defense, no mat
ter how-large an expenditure is in
volved.
There has always been a strong
i clique of members who were known
as "little navy" men. They invariably
opposed anything resembling an ade
quate army or navy or coast defences.
They preferred that the money should
be spent on buildings or rivers and
harbors or some other secondary im
provement.
If the European war of itself has
not taught these men their lesson, the
strong national sentiment which has
developed in favor of adequate mili
tary protection should convince them
that the time for obstruction has
passed.
The defense leagues that are being
formed throughout the country indi
cate that since Congress has delayed
action the people are taking matters
into their own hands. Unless Con
gress sets to work out a "sane, ra
tional and reasonable" program, the
military spirit in the United States
will grow dangerously.—Washington
Post.
IT'S MIGHTY HARD
By Wiag Dinger
Many forms of disappointment,
True, there are, which I coi'ld note.
But tnere's one that beats all others
For the getting of one's goat.
Here it is. Just think it over,
Tell me when you've read it, bo.
Is there any meaner," keener
Disappointment than you know?
I refer to when the home team
•Round the circuit goes to play.
And they have a streak at winning.
Taking games most every day
Every morn you keep a wondering
If to-day the team /will win,
And you think you simply can't wait
Till it's time, play to begin.
As the starting hour approaches
You speax out to get the word
As it's posted every inning
Telling Vou what has occurred.
Suddenly your hopes are. blasted.
Smiles give way to signs of pain
As yoiu read this little message,
"Gam® postponed, account of jaln." _
SUMMER SCENES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
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(Courtesy Eastman Kodak Company.)
TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE
—Prince Oscar has written a book on
the battles in the Champaign# regions.
As seen from the rear?
—Mayor Royal says there is too much
feeling shown in Council. Has the
Mayor ever heard the story of the pot
that called the kettle black, or of the
man who didn't dare throw stones be
cause he lived in a glass house?
—Every time Colonel Roosevelt gets
about ready to hop back on the front
page for a period, somebody goes and
sinks a ship. No wonder he is so bitter
against the Germans.
—The way some people behave you
might think they worked during the
day merely to provide money for fun
In the evenings.
—Dcwn in Atlantic City the "cops"
are required to measure the length of
bathing suits that appear shorter than
the legal limit of three inches above
the knee. Yes, there is a waiting list
of applicants for the force.
—Up to this time the Germans have
been squeezing the nut-cracker on
Warsaw hard enough, only they appear
to have misjudged the thickness of the
shell. *
—However our sympathies may tend
you must admit that the whole Euro
pean war Is a shell game.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Mayor Mitchel arrested and fined $5
for speeding. That man no sooner
tries to get a move on than somebody
wants to check him.—New York Tele
gram.
Dr. von Jagow's latest explanation of
the Lusitania disaster seems to be that
Germany did not think it was loaded.
—lndianapolis Star.
An English writer declares that the
British army of 750,000 is really 4,000,-
000. Mavbe, but it's fighting like 750,-
000.—Boston Transcript.
German editor says President Wilson
"has brought thinking minds back to
the consideration of humanity in war,"
but what is needed is somebody to bring
unthinking minds back.—Wall Street
Journal.
Inasmuch as the Minnehaha had on
board onlv 1,000 cases of cordite. 2,800
cases of 'loaded shrapnel-shells. 1,400
cases of trinitrotoluol (a chemical of
great force which goes into high-ex
plosive shells). 65 barrels of petrolatum,
723 cases of loaded cartridges, 66 bar
rels of rum, 10 barrels of salicylic acid,
95 barrels of boraclc acid, you can
plainly see how the military experts
were driven to the conclusion that noth
ing could have caused the explosion but
a bomb of the late Frank Holt.—ln
dianapolis Star.
CONSTRUCTIVE SCIENCE
The contrivance of new means of
destroying life and property has
lately gone forward by leaps and
bounds under the solicitation and
moneyed backing of the warring na
tions now engaged in a death strug
gle; but as yet the fighters have no
monopoly of scientific effort. A party
of St. Louis scientists have just set
out for a voyage of discovery In Cen
tral America with a view of gather
ing first-hand data in the disease
breeding regions of that part of the
continent for more successfully com
batting and curing the infectious
diseases that have their origin in the
malarial swamps of the tropics. There
is no little personal risk attending the
execution of this life-saving service.
Peace has its heroes as well as war.
The discovery of a practicable
means of extinguishing oil fires by
Engineer Walker is another forward
step in the future saving of life as
well as millions of dollars' worth of
property. The general use of oil and
its products throughout the civilized
world for purposes of lighting, heat
ing and the production of mechanical
power has been attended with serious
fire risk. A means of insurance
against this risk is a great boon to
the whole industrial world.—Philadel
phia Record.
NEW YORK BEAUTIFYING RIVER
[From the Kansas City Star.]
New York City and West Chester
county are furnishing Kansas City a
forceful lesson in ri\'er beautiflcatlon.
The Bronx river there, a few years
ago, was what the Blue is here at pres
ent—a sluggish stream filled with
refuse and bordered by unattractive
banks.
In 1907 a plan was formed to beau
tify the river. Since then the work
has progressed steadily. The expense
is defrayed by the city and county
lointly, the former paying three
fourths. A State commlsion has charge.
At present the title to two-thirds of
the required land for Bronx River Val
ley Park, to connect Bronx Park In New
York Cltv with Kensico Reservoir
Park In Westchester county. Much of
the land has been given outright. No
condemnation has been necessary.
As fast as title to the land passes to
public hands the work of making the
Bronx river an attractive stream is
started. The banks are revetted. All
refuse, snags and sand bars are re
moved. Shrubbery has been planted
and native trees placed under the care
of foresters. Roadways and pathways
| will follow the curving banks of the
'stream the enOre length.
Would Mortgage Forests' Future Income
Article by Bureau Chief Advocates Plan to Stimulate
Agricultural Development
*
WASHINGTON. D. C„ July 29.
The Secretary of Agriculture's
plan to anticipate future re
ceipts from the national forests by se
curing an advance of money from Con
gress for the construction of roads,
trails, bridges, and other public works
would stimulate agricultural develop
ment and would relieve many
struggling communities from their
present burdens of taxation, sayS an
artiole contributed by the Chief of
the Forest Service to the Department
of Agriculture Year Book, Just issued.
This policy, says the article, would
apply exclusively in those counties
where there is a considerable area of
national forest land so located that the
forest resources can not now be mar
keted, although later they will yield
a large revenue. It would fully meet
the local difficulties arising from the
fact that the national forests are not
subject to taxation; would aid in the
protection and development of the
forest resources, and would remove
the one barrier which in a few places
prevents farmers from immediately
enjoying the benefits of the national
forests.
Millions of acres of farm land are
to-day undeveloped because of a lack
of good roads. In opening any new
country road building constitutes a
hard problem for the settlers. At
first while the settler is struggling to
erect his home and farm buildings and
to clear his land, he usually cannot
afford to pay high taxes or otherwise
I
Our Daily Laugh
SHOPWORN.
I think If Gladys •
marries Mr. Real- i
estate she will sell /rSw k . * 383/
herself oheaply. M&Sk 7?
Well, she's been 'Zft'-vT
on the shelf lo»g lift
enough to go at a
BEACH BELLES
if Vera has ap
pealing eyes.
• Has a peelinj
"%) nose Just now » '
notice.
HAS THE MILLENNIUM ARRIVED?
The report comes that the French
Government went into the market at
Chicago for 80,000 "'cattle. Of course,
a satisfactory price w'as offered. The
Chicago cattle buyers could have
made a neat profit by accepting and
filling the order.
But they turned it down. And what
reason do you suppose they gave for
not accepting and filling the order?
It was not that there wasn't money
enough in it to make It tempting.
That was not it. Now hold your
breath and listen:
Why, they said to purchase that
number of beef cattle, all in a lump
would raise the price of beef at home.
Think of Chicago packers losing sight
of their pocketbooks and exposing
their philanthropy in its shirt sleeves.
To their credit, of course, it is. It
shows their bodies are not minus
souls, that they have hearts as well
as heads. It shows that while living
themselves they are willing to let
other people live. Their ' act in re
fusing to fill the order may leave
some of the French soldiers meatless,
but it will give some Americans a
chance to moisten the dry staff of
lffe with gravy and a taste of meat.
—Kansas City Journal.
PSYCHOLOGY OF HATE
[Ohio State Journal ]
In treating of the psychology of
hato with respect to the Injunction
to love our enemies, the mistake is
made in regarding hate as an inde
pendent emotion; that it and love ex
haust themselves in the will itself.
But neither of these two qualities rep
resent being simply, but doing. Love
is an active quality. If one loves a
person he must show It in kindness,
in helpfulness, in commonplace duty.
And so, one is enjoined to love
hie enemy, it does nit mean he should
exercise toward him an unrelated and
Independent emotion, but to do him a
kindness, to help him in some way.
That Is loving him. That is the mean
ing of the rule.
And it is a divine rule.* Try it on an
enemy. Transmute that hate into a
kindness and see how promptly the re
flex action will come and make you
feel good. You cannot understand why
a kindness is a cure for hate. Of
course not; if you did you would not
incline to say the Bible rule was im
possible. It is the little discrimina
tions like this that are the strongest
proof of the divinity of the Bible. Its
psychology or hate is the soundest
science .there is.
contribute toward the expense of road
building. The national forests com
prise the remotest and least settled
regions of the country. In many cases
farming in these localities is still
pioneering, under as difficult condi
tions as have ever existed in the
United States. One of the principal
reasons for the failure to develop the
large areas of excellent agricultural
land which lie near the forests is the
lack of roads.
The Government is trying to meet
this problem in two ways, first by pub
lic improvements being made on the
national forests, and second by the
direct contribution to the counties of
a share in the forest receipts. Up to
date the Forest Service has construct
ed on the forests more than 2,300
miles of roads, 21,000 miles of trails,
nearly 600 bridges, and 18,000 miles
of telephone lines. Every one of these
improvements benefits settlers and
ranchers. In addition, there is ap
propriated annually for the use of the
counties In which the national forests
lie 25 per cent of the gross receipts
from timber sales and other sources,
to be used for road and school pur
poses. Some of the Individual forests
are bringing in over SIOO,OOO a year,
and the business of the entire national
forest system is increasing so that
this direct contribution to community
upbuilding Is rapidly growing. In
fact, already a total of nearly $900,-
000 is obtained from the forests every
year for county road and school pur
poses.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS }
AGO TO-DAY |
[From the Telegraph of July 29.1865.J
Three Cars Now Running
The street railways company is now
running three cars on its new line, but
cannot accommodate the crowds.
Fast Driving in City
. Complaints have been made that a
number of persons have been driving
through the city at full speed, violating
the city ordinances. It Is expected
that arrests will be made. ,
Warn Watermelon Eaters
Persons eating watermelons are
warned not to throw the rinds on the
pavemont, because it endangers the
general public. A number of persons
have slipped, injuring themselves in
the falls to the ground.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
"Dennis Hathnaught" in a series of
connected sketches, traces the his
tory of the people in their struggle for
freedom, through all its phases—com
pulsory labor or slavery; serfdom'and
feudalism; rise of the cities; trade de
velopment; crafts, wages, factories,
trades unionism, socialism, feminism
—as reflected in the works of histor
ians, philosophers, novelists, econo
mists, poets, of all ages and nations-
Its underlying principle Is that prog
ress is an eternal and an ordered law,
working through Evolution and Sug
gestion, and that it is an unceasing
struggle—the seeming zenith being
only the nadir of new heights.
The Fall list of the Writers' Publish
ing Company, Brooklyn-New York, is
not yet complete, but it will include
"Dennis Hathnaught," an unusual pre
sentiment of the Rise of the Common
People, by James Philip MacCarthy;
"The Serio-Comlc Profession," a dozen
essays for writers and for readers In
terested in them and their craft, by
L. J. de Bekker; a new series of Am
erican poets, small volumes Intended
for use as gift-books and possibly a re
print of MacCarthy's "The Newspa
per Worker."
CHINA AND PEACE
[From the Beaver Falls Evening
Tribune.]
Yet, peace can be preserved by un
fireparedness for war. China Is show
ng how It Is done.
A True Incident
"Socially. I would prefer to
sell B.'s flour, because It is a
good product and B. Is a friend
of mine.
"As a businessman, I have to
sell X.'s Instead, because the pub
lic demand it.
"The reason they do Is because
X. advertises his brand In the
local newspapers."
This statement was made by a
large New England retailer.
It emphasizes the reason why
dealers favor newspaper adver
tised proiliirta.
Manufacturers who want to
know more about newspaper pos
sibilities are invited to write to
the Bureau of Advertising, Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation. World Building, New
York.
Etoning (JHiat
"From all I can gather the crop of
wheat in this section of the State Is ,
not going to be so poor either as to
quality or quantity and the thresh
ing now in progress in Dauphin, Cum
berland and Perry counties will be
watched with interest not only by the
farmers, but by men wno are interest
ed in the food supply," said a Har
rlsburg businessman who keeps In
close touch with agriculture to-day.
"There was a large acreage set out
in this section and the effects of the "
weather and blight were not as severo
as in some other portions of ttye State
and I do not know of as:y wheat being
ploughed down. There will be a good
market for the crop that is just being
put away. If the weatner holds out
we are going to have an unusually fine
oats crop. In fact, from what I have
learned the quality will bg better than
for ten years and unless the weather
comes along and affects it at the last
minute we should have a valuable as
set in that line. I think the corn is
coming along better than a good many
people believe or affect to believe.'
Last year we had a good farming year
and strange to say we are having a
good one this year and there will be
more farmers running automobiles
next Spring."
The recent rains and the high and
muddy condition of the streams In
this vicinity have caused a good many
camping parties to defer their fun
until the month of August and thero
are fewer fires twinkling along the
Juniata and the Susquehanna and
Cumberland county's two big creeks
than usual at this season of the year.
The Swatara creek, which is popular
for camping parties to an extent un
known ten years ago. has had very
few say men from the rich agricultural
region it traverses. However, August's
first fortnight may hold up its end as
the great time for camping.
"What's the reason everyone who
drives an automobile has to toe the
mark in traffic regulations and horso
drivers do as they please?" demanded
the conductor-motorman-flagman o£ a
jitney this morning. "Just you watch
and see. Say, if I run my car up
against a trolley car that's stopping to
take on or off a passenger it's ag much
as my license is worth, but any fel
low driving a team can come right
along and nearly knocK down a pas
senger and no one says a word. And
then they cut in and drive ahead of
us at intersections and don't pay any
attention to the 'cops' at all. If I get up
behind some fellow driving a horsa
and he don't choose to turn out I've
got to take it and if I try to get ahead
of him he threatens to pull the law on
i me. It strikes me that drivers of
I horses ought to be regulated just the
same as us fellows who run gas
wagons."
William S. Essick, formerly presi
dent of the Harrisburg Rotary club,
who Is representing that organization
at the international convention of Ro
tary clubs in San Francisco is sending
back souvenirs of his trip, with the
message, "Uncle Bill says howd'y to
the boys at home." "Uncle Bill" ap
pears to have strayed as far as San
Diego and the carbuncle on, the back
of his neck which kept him awake on
the trip west has yielded to the beguil
ing atmosphere of the California cli
i mate and the hospitable treatment of
1 the Frisco Rotarians. He reports
having enjoyed the Rotary convention,
which was the biggest on record, and
will render a repdrt to the Harrisburg
club at the September meeting. Ha
hopes to be home in time for the At%.
gust outing of the Rotarians now be
ing planned. Dr. John A. Sherger, of
1809 North Sixth street, is another
Rotarian representative to the San
Francisco gathering who is sending
souvenirs to his friends and he also
reports a "ripping time" at the big
meeting. Samuel P. Eby. president of
the Harrisburg Bag and Box Com
pany. attended the Rotary convention
during his tour of the west with his
family and was accorded the privi
leges of a delegate. Harrisburg was
unusually well represented, consider
ing the distance of the convention
city and the size of the local club.
One of the pleasantest country
homes In the vicinity of Harrisburg is
that of Harry C. Ross, the well-known
merchant tailor. It is located in tha
Eastern part of the county with a
view from the front porch that over
looks the broad spreading rolling
country to the east and the gap in tha
mountain to the north. The house is
a handsome brick structure erected
years ago and is as well equipped with
modern conveniences as many city
residences. On the premises is an
other house used for house-parties in
the vacation season and a well-mado
tennis court is also an attraction. In
addition, and whisper it softly, Mr.
Ross makes his summer place pay In
farm produce, chickens, grain and
fruit. Which is something that can
not be said of all luxuries.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~
—Samuel W. Traylor, the Allentown
manufacturer, predicts enlargement of
a number of Pennsylvania works as a
result of war orders.
—John H. Tresher, former sheriff
of Westmoreland county, is home from
a visit to the Pacific Coast.
—Guy Nickalls, the University coach
is training boat club crews to repre
sent Philadelphia at the big regatta.
—A. P. Robinson, vice president of
the Cambria, does not believe much In
the new combination reports.
—W. D. Lewis, Philadelphia, educa
tor, is delivering a series of lectures
in Pittsburgh.
—J. Alderice, who is directing tha
Pittsburgh police In the clean-up of
automobile regulation violators, is
well known to many Harrlsburgers.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg's building rec
ord has been as good, if not better,
than most eities of its size in the
country this year?
AS TO CHILDREN
[From St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
Every child must have child-com»
panions; every child must form in
childish folds; every child has the In
born right to develop physically and
mentally in child fashion. The activlttT*
whiqh .its muscles crave must be in
hibited neither by nursery strings that
cut the tender flesh nor by imperious
discipline that is doubly cruel from
being unintelligible to the little one.
An idle man is a bad man; an idle
child is a mischievous child. One could
not devise a surer means to ruin a
child than to condemn it to the ex
clusive company of its elders, and forc
ing it to "behave" surrounded by ob
jects that will not flt into its baby
hands.
CIVIC CLUB '
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
H . , 5 Cents a Pint >
Prizes of 55, 92.50 and several
SI.OO ones
duplicated by Mr. Ben Stronse